Chocolate shop making return to its Mass Ave roots
The Best Chocolate in Town sweets shop will open informally this week in the same retail strip where it served customers from 2007 to 2020.
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IBJ Podcast: Is downtown safe? Ask two business owners who reached different conclusions.
Mason King talks with Greg Harris, founder of Backhaul Direct, which left downtown, and Andrew Elsenser, co-founder of Spot, which is expanding downtown.
Speedway considering gap loan for $35M Wilshaw hotel project
The upscale hotel project across from Indianapolis Motor Speedway has gone through numerous delays since being announced in 2015. A new developer took over in late 2021 but has yet to restart construction.
Construction on 400-unit apartment community finally to begin at former Pittman Farms
A five-year legal battle among members of the Pittman family delayed the project. Those disputes were settled two years ago.
100 years after his birth, guitarist Wes Montgomery remembered for understated mastery
“Wes Bound,” scheduled to premiere Feb. 26 on Bloomington public television station WTIU-TV Channel 30, is a centennial tribute to Montgomery, who was born on March 6, 1923
Bill aims to keep state from releasing non-resident prisoners in Indianapolis
House Bill 1087, authored by Rep. Justin Moed, D-Indianapolis, would require the Indiana Department of Correction—with some exceptions—to return offenders to the county where they lived when they were convicted.
Indy Fuel’s planned move to Fishers has been longtime dream for owner
The announcement last fall that the Indy Fuel minor league hockey team would move to Fishers and be the anchor tenant for an 8,500-seat arena was the culmination of two decades of vision and work by the team’s founder Jim Hallett.
House passes $43.4B budget with no Democrat votes
Democrats denounced the budget for taking funding away from traditional public schools. Under the new proposal, families making up to 400% of the federal poverty level, roughly $220,000, qualify for vouchers.
To celebrate 30 years, ComedySportz makes fresh start at new venue
After exiting its Mass Ave venue during the pandemic, the company that presents ComedySportz improv shows is set to open a new theater in the former home of a Books & Brews.
Carvana debt comes due with business ‘firmly in retreat’
The quarterly loss reported after the close Thursday caps a disastrous year in which Carvana’s stock plummeted 98%, erasing almost $37 billion of market capitalization. Carvana spent $2.2 billion last year to acquire Carmel-based KAR Auction Services Inc.’s physical auto auction business, ADESA.
Liquor store ownership group builds 60-store business of varied brands
Indiana Liquor Group has been acquiring stores in small cities and towns since 2019 and typically leaves the business names unchanged.
Area residential builders get off to slow start in 2023
Filings for single-family building permits in central Indiana have fallen on a year-over-year basis for the past 13 months and in 16 of the past 18 months.
IU Health’s operating income falls 25%, squeezed by labor shortage, rising expenses
IU Health said it responded to its highest patient demand ever last year, driven by surges in COVID-19 cases, high counts of critically ill patients, and the need to perform surgeries and other procedures delayed in the pandemic.
Mix Food Halls debut in Indiana at Kroger stores in Carmel, Fishers
Kitchen United describes Mix Food Hall as the “nation’s first multi-restaurant ordering to-go experience.”
Talking Heads-inspired tour seeks to recapture joy of 1980 shows
Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew will bring an 11-member band to the Egyptian Room in Old National Centre for a Feb. 26 performance.
City looking to establish development plan for Indiana Avenue corridor
The Department of Metropolitan Development on Thursday issued a request for expressed interest, or RFEI, which will allow the officials to gauge the appetite developers have to devise an overall plan for the Indiana Avenue neighborhood.
Fishers looks to lower bar for HOAs to make changes
The Fishers City Council is considering an ordinance that would make it easier for new homeowners associations in the city to make changes to covenants and restrictions.
Study: Smoking costs Hoosier businesses $3.1B annually in ‘hidden tax’
The Indianapolis-based foundation said the study, announced Thursday, shows that if the state cigarette tax increased by $2 per pack, from the current 99 cents per pack, an estimated 45,000 Hoosier adults would stop smoking.
Indians keeping name, forge partnership with Miami Nation
The professional baseball team known as the Indianapolis Indians since 1902 will continue to play under that name for at least two more seasons, it announced Wednesday.
Statehouse, City-County Council poised for dogfight over retail sale of pets
The Indianapolis City-County Council Public Affairs Committee voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of restricting the retail sale of dogs, cats and rabbits, days after the Indiana Senate voted in favor of a law that would override such an ordinance.